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Thematic Issues and Critical Areas of Concern >
Critical Areas of Concern >
Education and Training of Women
Education is human right and an essential tool for achieving the goals of equality, development and peace. Non-discriminatory education benefits both girls and boys and thus ultimately contributes to more equal relationships between women and men.
- Women, Science, Technology
[ www.unesco.org ]
Languages: English | French
Pages on women and science and technology - with links to forums and other resources
- FAO: Gender and Education, Extension and Communication
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Statistics, programmes, documents and fact files
- Online Discussion: Education and Training of Women and the Girl-child
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
From October 2004 to January 2005, WomenWatch hosted a series of online discussions on the Platform's critical areas of concern and other important issues to provide input into the review and appraisal of the Bejing Declaration and Platform for Action. All postings and background notes are available for reading as archived online discussion.
- UNICEF: Girls' education
[ www.unicef.org ]
Languages: English
- 'Beyond School Books': Gender equality (Podcast)
[ www.unicef.org ]
Languages: English
Segment #6 of ‘Beyond School Books’, a UNICEF podcast series on education in emergencies, focuses on education as a key to the advancement of women in countries emerging from conflict. UNICEF, 2008
- UN DPI: Empowering Women Through Education
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
UN Chronicle, 1999-2003
- UNESCO: Issues Paper on Inclusion of Gender Perspectives in Family Education
[ www.unescobkk.org ]
Languages: English
2003, PDF
- UNESCO: Institute for Statistics: Gender and Education for All - The Leap to Equality
[ www.uis.unesco.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Russian
Second edition of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, 2003
- UNRISD: Gender and Education: A Review of Issues for Social Policy
[ www.unrisd.org ]
Languages: English
Overview of key issues relating to the achievement of gender equality in education, 2002
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Gender-Sensitive Education Statistics and Indicators
[ www.uis.unesco.org ]
Languages: English | French
This guide builds up awareness of gender-sensitive education statistics and indicators to effectively monitor gender disparities in education, 2002.
- FAO: Higher agricultural education and opportunities in rural development for women
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Overview and summary of five case-studies, 1997 publication
- UNESCO: When girls go missing from the classroom
[ www.unesco.org ]
Languages: English
Journal about gender gap in African schools, 2001
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